dba+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Anderson) (12/05/90)
Does anyone know more about Kyocera's Refalo or the Fujitsu FMR Card PC than these very brief blurbs I found? > For between 7,000 yen and 15,000 yen apiece, Diamond Inc. and Kodansha > Ltd. will sell dictionaries and maps stored on credit-card sized > integrated-circuit memory cards. They will slide into Kyocera Corp.'s > Refalo, a new machine that's shaped like a Filofax organizer, weighs > less than 1 1/2 pounds and uses Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system. ... Kyocera's Refalo can also accept handwriting... > Fujitsu Ltd. recently unveiled its two-pound, one-ounce FMR Card PC, > apparently the world's lightest personal computer with a full-sized keyboard. > But the machine has no floppy disks, only integrated circuit memory cards > costing about 60,000 yen -- one-fourth the price of the machine. Only > about 20 software packages are available, compared with thousands for > more conventional PCs. From other sources I've read that the Fujitsu has a 286 and a small, non-backlit 640x400 display, runs for quite some time on AA batteries (using power conservation techniques borrowed from Poquet, which is partially owned by Fujitsu), and can have > 1Meg ram. The price I heard was around $1800. Anyone know more? I'd like to see a picture somewhere; anything been published? --david